13 ¶ Then Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said unto him. Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the [a]commandment of the Lord.

14 But Samuel said, What meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

15 And Saul answered, They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, to sacrifice them unto the Lord thy God, and the remnant have we destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:13 This is the nature of hypocrites to be impudent against the truth, to condemn others, and justify themselves.

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